This man, who cannot be president, is more presidential than the current occupier (and destroyer) of the White House on this eve of our country's 250th birthday. www.youtube.com/live/JztQx56...

I knew this was coming but kind of forgot in all the other insanity? But yeah, turns out when you defund science, bad things happen (ofc normal people know this; Republicans believe they should have all the benefits of society without ever paying for them, also freely attacking the foundations)

In case you were wondering: No, we no longer have a 1st Amendment.

Sometimes if people want to get hit by lightning you just let them

a big fuck you from mother nature herself

"For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."

I'm getting poutine from a food truck in the Canadian Tire parking lot on the 4th of July🤣(while charging my EV) #Ottawa

It's very much this

CBC’s The National last night: Top story is the government announcing a new oil pipeline from Alberta and how it placated BC Then a story on the massive heatwave, storms and flooding in Ontario and Quebec Then a story on huge Manitoba flooding after they also dealt with tornadoes and rain 🫠

I knew this was coming but kind of forgot in all the other insanity? But yeah, turns out when you defund science, bad things happen (ofc normal people know this; Republicans believe they should have all the benefits of society without ever paying for them, also freely attacking the foundations)

nothing says Freedom 250 like “welcome to the capital city, enjoy our many state booths which highlight thDO NOT TOUCH THE PRESIDENT’S PERFECT POOL. ANYONE CAUGHT DISRESPECTING OUR LEADER’S PERFECT POOL WILL BE IMMEDIATELY ARRESTED FOR STREET CRIME”

Thank you to PBS News Hour @pbsnews.org for giving me the time and space to say this last night: “What we're seeing is a manifestation of climate change. What we're doing is living in the future that climate scientists have been warning us warning us about for 50 years.”

Incredible

Nothing quite captures the spirit of America 250 like promising a century of single party rule if only one party can change election laws.

I meant to share the link to that zine. Here it is: millionexperiments.com/zines/50-way...

Tämä sopisi oikein hyvin tänne Pohjolaankin, lumi valuu pois ja aurinko on useat talvikuukaudet niin alhaalla että kulma on juuri oikea.

[AlertDC] America’s Independence Day Parade in downtown DC (July 4, 10:30AM) has been CANCELED by organizers due to Extreme Heat Warning. Heat index 110-115F.

I worked on a NSW cattle farm every January for about 10 years. Every word of this thread is true, but none more vital than this one. I nearly took my fingers off with a sprayer hose by not winding it up before I moved the quad bike. I still carry a lumbar injury from lifting up a box trailer.

This man, who cannot be president, is more presidential than the current occupier (and destroyer) of the White House on this eve of our country's 250th birthday. www.youtube.com/live/JztQx56...

Hey Canadian friends, here's how you can help bring balcony solar to Canada! www.pluginsolarpower.ca/ontario

co-sign

Keep your moisturizer in the fridge. It really helps.

Limit your activity. Do not push through this. I have seen up close and personal how fast heatstroke or dehydration can get you, way faster and harder than you think is possible.

This will be a thread of tips for people suffering through their first god-awful heat wave with no or subpar AC. I'm a perpetually broke Southern Californian so my ideas run cheap.

I respect our Sun God. Our Sun God is angry. Do not do more to anger the Sun God. Stop burning things. That is Sun God's job. Also, stay out of the sun when Sun God is angry, that's just common sense.

watch out for your elders www.aarp.org/health/healt...

I am making a move (for my sanity, moving into a new chapter of my life) and I'm looking for a small 100yo bungalow (I call it my *witchy cottage* aesthetic) in a cozy Chicago neighborhood to call my new home (for now). This is the ethos of which I seek.

New from 404 Media: Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it. www.404media.co/henrico-virg...

Love this image by Koren.

Lots of folks replying to this here (and elsewhere) objecting to "undesirable output" as a replacement for "hallucination". Most of the alternative sugestions miss a really key point:

catching up on @mattliepaehlke.bsky.social's amazing podcast FUTURE MENDING on my way to Ottawa -- I never fail to be moved by each of his episodes. Particularly enjoyed Art is for Everyone and Four Reminders for Individuals 😍 www.futuremending.com/podcast

I swear, "a pope from Chicago excommunicates a Nazi-adjacent sect" is like a cut scene from The Blues Brothers

This is trash.

There's an ottawa spot on my 'want to interview' list actually: www.a7g.ca

catching up on @mattliepaehlke.bsky.social's amazing podcast FUTURE MENDING on my way to Ottawa -- I never fail to be moved by each of his episodes. Particularly enjoyed Art is for Everyone and Four Reminders for Individuals 😍 www.futuremending.com/podcast

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

#library fans and #librarian friends, this looks pretty cool www.sustainablelibrariesinitiative.org

This is why we need to read the books of folks like this. It's nutrition for the imagination.

who needs a bird nerd? HERE YOU GO

This is such a good point. Whatever future you want to move toward *something* has been stopping you. Sometimes it's simply failure of imagination, and thus imagined, it's easy to change. But often it's structural, but not always...we have to become more self-aware of our internal obstacles.

Scotland is facing a wave of hyper-scale AI data centre planning applications. If all the data centres are built, they will consume more than 1.5 times Scotland’s total peak energy use. ✍️Write to the First Minister and demand a pause of mega data centre applications greens.scot/datacentres

I am making a move (for my sanity, moving into a new chapter of my life) and I'm looking for a small 100yo bungalow (I call it my *witchy cottage* aesthetic) in a cozy Chicago neighborhood to call my new home (for now). This is the ethos of which I seek.

17/ Interrogator: “Nature adapts and uses resources efficiently, but also preserves redundancy, resilience, robustness, and circularity, resources flow, recycle, and regenerate. Features often ignored by human optimization, which favours linear extraction.”

16/ Interrogator: “Art, research, exploration thrive on distraction, failure, experimentation. Efficiency suppresses curiosity, risk-taking, and depth.”

these people are evil, the pinnacle achievers of capitalism hacking people's brains for profit so many people want regulation yet we have basically none (most people still have no idea how fucked up nearly everything in the grocery store is, for one reason or another) www.kqed.org/news/1208613...

Repost for the nocturnal crowd - bidding is live, support voting rights, let me help you finesse your project’s fight scenes and sword lore

I did this story when I was with Bloomberg and it foundationally changed how I move in the summer. There's so much I couldn't get into and I'm super super heat tolerant. As in I've never overheated and not because I avoid heat or don't do dumb stuff.

After finishing this excellent (short!) book, I'm more convinced than ever we can't built a better world without dismantling male supremacy as the organizing principle of our world. Patriarchy is not fit for purpose for survival in the 21st Century: it is and will continue to destroy everything.

Is this real life? Second **and** Third in the @bwgroundtable.bsky.social 2026 Short Story contest judged by @susankayequinn.bsky.social? And @averyother.bsky.social is on the podium with me *again*? Chuffed. Floored. Tickled. Ecstatic.